Ramaphosa said he had given the EFF's Julius Malema a commitment, stemming from his call to Ramaphosa in his maiden Sona in 2018, to sing the lyrics of the Hugh Masekela classic, Thuma Mina, that he quoted then.

The president said when he ran into Malema on Wednesday, they struck another deal.

"We agreed that if the EFF wins the elections and he is installed as the president of South Africa then he will invite me to come up on stage and sing for him."

"By sheer accident," said Ramaphosa, he had also encountered Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane.

"I also recruited him [Maimane] to become a member of the band we are going to form."

The EFF last month said it would turn the Sona into a quesiton-and-answer session if Ramaphosa did not address his relationship with Bosasa.

This followed Ramaphosa's disclosure in Parliament in November last year that his son had business dealings with Bosasa and had benefitted to the tune of at least R500,000. In an about-turn just days later, the president said he had provided inaccurate information and that the half a million rand was actually paid by Bosasa, now African Global Operations, to trust account used to fund his election campaign for ANC presidency.

Ramaphosa had said the money had been returned to Bosasa.

African News Agency (ANA)